Trade-Ideas: Transocean (RIG) Is Today's Post-Market Leader Stock

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Trade-Ideas LLC identified Transocean ( RIG) as a post-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Transocean as such a stock due to the following factors:

RIG has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $187.1 million.

Transocean Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells worldwide. The company provides deepwater and harsh environment drilling, oil and gas drilling management, and drilling engineering and drilling project management services. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 5.2%. RIG has a PE ratio of 11.1. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Transocean a buy, 4 analysts rate it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.

The average volume for Transocean has been 5.5 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Transocean has a market cap of $15.5 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and energy industry. The stock has a beta of 2.09 and a short float of 12.5% with 10.64 days to cover. Shares are down 12.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

TheStreet Quant Ratings rates Transocean as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, poor profit margins and weak operating cash flow.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 9.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 0.3%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.

RIG's debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64 is somewhat low overall, but it is high when compared to the industry average, implying that the management of the debt levels should be evaluated further. Despite the fact that RIG's debt-to-equity ratio is mixed in its results, the company's quick ratio of 1.57 is high and demonstrates strong liquidity.

Net operating cash flow has decreased to $773.00 million or 16.25% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.

The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Energy Equipment & Services industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 48.9% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $456.00 million to $233.00 million.